“We seem to have lost the gift of patience, of waiting for time to unfold its story.”
― Gardening in the Desert: A Guide to Plant Selection and Care
― Gardening in the Desert: A Guide to Plant Selection and Care
“An unreasoning tender love, of the kind sometimes engendered by Papa’s best French champagne or the melancholy cooing of pigeons on a Spring afternoon, filled her heart to overflowing. A love that included Marion, waiting with a flinty smile for Miranda to have done with Edith’s nonsense. Tears sprang to her eyes, but not of sorrow. She had no desire to weep. Only to love, and shaking out her ringlets she got up off the rock where she had been lying in the shade and began to dance.”
― Picnic at Hanging Rock
― Picnic at Hanging Rock
“Sometimes I would like to be a child again, and other times a woman made of snow.”
― Tangleweed and Brine
― Tangleweed and Brine
“Sometimes he felt his loneliness. But these moments of solitude and loneliness gave meaning to his existence. He would keep drifting from moment to moment - inhaling the fragrances of these moments like one inhaled from the flowers in a garden!”
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“I walked round the block thinking I’d think about it, but my legs were heading home, and sometimes you have to accept that your heart knows what to do.”
― The Gap of Time: The Winter’s Tale Retold
― The Gap of Time: The Winter’s Tale Retold
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